Lucia Bíziková LL.M.

Investor-State arbitration:

• Representing an Azerbaijani investor in an ICSID arbitration against Georgia regarding an investment in a company controlling an important fiber-optic cable network (Nasib Hasanov v. Georgia, ICSID Case No. ARB/20/44).
• Representing a Swiss investor, Mr Ronald Waldmann, and his company Basel LLC, in an ICSID arbitration against Georgia relating to his acquisition of land and project to finance a major real estate development in Tbilisi (Basel LLC and Ronald Waldmann v. Georgia, ICSID Case No. ARB/23/23).
• Advised a UK technology company in relation to a USD250m dispute under a bilateral investment treaty with a Latin American state arising from the expropriation of the investor’s business and expulsion from the country.

Commercial arbitration and advisory:

• Acting for an Italian company in defence of a Paris seated ICC arbitration brought by French and Dutch counterparties, relating to the alleged breaches of contract arising from works carried out during the installation of an offshore windfarm in Saint-Nazaire, France.
• Acting for a European multi-national energy company in relation to a dispute with a Spanish multinational natural gas and electrical energy utilities company in the context of a request for the amendment of indexes used for the calculation of the price of the supply and delivery of gas under a gas sale and purchase agreement. The disputed issues include the interpretation and interrelationship between expert determination and arbitration clauses, and whether the purchaser is entitled to an amendment of the contract price as a consequence of gas price volatility.
• Advised a world’s leading producer and supplier of intervention and stimulation equipment in a dispute with a major provider of floating offshore energy solutions concerning our client’s contractual rights and obligations under English law with respect to the delivery of a seawater treatment equipment from a country in Latin America to Asia.
• Represented a German State-backed energy company in an injunction proceedings brought against its Russian counter-party before the High Court, arising from a contractual dispute regarding the counter-party’s alleged right to suspend gas flows.
• Represented a Korean State-owned company in an ICC arbitration arising from a dispute with an Indonesian company in respect of its claims for price revision under an English law long term LNG sale and purchase agreement, with a value of several hundred million dollars.
• Advised a major energy company in successfully defending London-seated LCIA arbitration proceedings brought by a joint venture partner in relation to an oil exploration and production company in Brazil. The claims were valued in excess of USD5bn and the outcome represented a significant strategic victory for one for the firm’s key clients in the context of a wider despite involving various of the parties’ subsidiaries.
• Represented the insurers as defendants in a GBP70m DIA arbitration brought due to the alleged faulty design and construction of three new biomass plants and one energy-from-waste process plant.

• Marc Jacob, Lucia Bíziková, “Investment Treaty Arbitration”, Westlaw, unpublished
• Lucia Bíziková, Philip Hancock, Dan jewell, Ilan Sherr, “IA Meets AI – Rise of the Machines”, Daily Jus, 2 October 2023
• Ben Sanderson, Lucia Bíziková, “Navigating Investment Law in Changing Climate – How Can States Balance Competing Obligations?”, TDM, Climate Change, Vol. 2, September 2023
• Kate Cervantes-Knox, Elinot Thomas, Lucia Bíziková, “Umbrella clauses in bilateral investment treaties”, Thomson Reuters Practical Law, June 2023
• Lucia Bíziková, “On Route to Climate Justice: The Greta Effect on International Commercial Arbitration”, Journal of International Arbitration (Scherer (ed.)), 8 February 2022
• Ben Sanderson, Lucia Bíziková, “Investment protection falls victim to Brexit – The analysis of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement”, Jus Mundi Blog, 25 January 2021
• Kate Cervantes-Knox, Lucia Bíziková, “Current trends in investor state disputes in the telecommunications sector”, Technology's Legal Edge, 9 November 2020

• Panellist at the 39th ITF Public Conference: Energy Disputes in ISDS organized by BIICL. Gave presentation on “Climate Justice and the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Standards” as part of Panel 2, April 2023;
• Organised and moderated a panel “Shift Happens: Tech, Trends and Tensions in International Abritration”, March 2022;
• Organised and moderated panel “Shining bright(er): A Junior Lawyer’s Guide to Raising Profile in International Arbitration” co-organised by London VYAP and Jus Mundi;
• Panellist at a conference “International Law in the Face of Climate Change” organized by the Assas University in Paris. Gave presentation on “Arbitrating Climate Change” as part of the dispute resolution panel, September 2020.